May 2010

It’s the Friday before Gluecon (next wednesday-thursday), which means that the next time you’ll likely hear from me will be from the keynote stage at the show. We’ve got an absolutely amazing group of sponsors, an out of this world…

Alright, you’ve got your gluecon ticket in hand (and if you don’t — I mean, really — why not?), and you’re wondering how your day 1 will end. I have the answer for you. After a day that’s jam-packed with…

There’s some news floating around this morning about David Recordon’s proposal to rebuild OpenID on top of OAuth 2.0. I can’t say that I have an opinion on this yet (first off, being a non-engineering guy, I have to get…

In 11 days, the “clouderati” will descend on the Omni Interlocken Resort in Broomfield, Colorado. People that are normally hard to pin down at all of those massive Silicon Valley tech conferences will be hanging out, having drinks, hacking apps,…

I was going to write something this morning about how Glue’s right around the corner, and how you should come, and how great it will be. And then Brad went and posted this talk by Simon Sinek. Go watch it,…

Rackspace’s earnings report prompted a Twitter exchange between myself and Michael DeSilver (of LTech) that seemed interesting enough to report here. Rackspace reported year over year growth in their cloud business of 77%, and sequential growth of 13% — all…

At some point in my life, I got interested in markets. Really interested. I started out interested in public markets, and I’ve grown into my interest in more private markets. But, overall, I love markets — the trades, the liquidity,…

David Recordon (of Facebook) sent over his session title this morning. Now, I think we all kind of figured that David would be addressing Facebook’s Open Graph stuff, but it’s nice to get “official confirmation” from him on that front….

Anyone that’s been reading my blog posts here or over on Defrag has probably figured out that I’m a big fan of recurring cycles in history, industries, societies, etc. It’s always especially interesting to watch it play out in the…

It seems appropriate to reference horse racing the Monday morning after the derby. Yes, we are “rounding the bend” — 23 days until Gluecon. I feel like I’ve droned on endlessly about how great it’s going to be (I probably…